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OMG, I find that some diaries are limited to those who have "joined" a political group on DU, It's no longer enough for me to declare party loyalty to comment?
Ask the administrators, don't ask me why or to explain that "for the good of...."
My comment is rhetorical
She The People
Read this on Daily Kos, Denise Oliver posted the item. A schedule for other cities is available on the website.
https://www.shethepeople.org/
A'shanti F. Gholar
@AshantiGholar
Excited that @_shethepeople will be in Richmond, VA on May 18th at Virginia Union University! Link in my bio to get a discounted registration rate. Hope to see you there! #SheThePeople2020
She The People
Read this on Daily Kos, Denise Oliver posted the item. A schedule for other cities is available on the website.
https://www.shethepeople.org/
A'shanti F. Gholar
@AshantiGholar
Excited that @_shethepeople will be in Richmond, VA on May 18th at Virginia Union University! Link in my bio to get a discounted registration rate. Hope to see you there! #SheThePeople2020
George Clooney Against DUMBF.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=0Ab4BRAQElwGeorge Clooney Against DUMBF**KERY
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Return of the Chicken Hawks-Advocates of Torture
It comes as no surprise that the bellowing, ugly, unhinged voices promoting a war follow DT like the flies on a pile of you know what. Republicans see this as a way to maintain control of the White House and Congress. They are beating the drums both as a distraction and reason to bury Mueller’s findings by offering a no longer shiny old objective, war with Iran and the next war Republicans want. This is intended to use a war to prop up the squatter in the WH and influence the 2020 election.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-john-bolton-20180327-story.html
John Bolton: Another hawk who managed to avoid military service altogether
Mar 27, 2018
To the editor: President Trump just fired Gen. H.R. McMaster and will have hawkish John Bolton replace him as national security advisor. It’s bad enough that our president, our new secretary of the State, Mike Pompeo, and the new director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, have all advocated torture. Even worse is the threat of war symbolized by Bolton, who has advocated bombing Iran, North Korea and even Cuba. It’s been said sarcastically that Bolton has not met a country he didn’t want to bomb. (“John Bolton's appointment further weakens the 'axis of adults' around Trump,” March 23.) Roger Carasso, Santa Fe, N.M.
To the editor: Has anyone noticed that those national policy makers that have had the heavy burden of ordering our military men and women into harm’s way, such as Gens. James N. Mattis and McMaster, are less inclined to threaten military action against our adversaries that those who managed to avoid military service altogether, such as Trump and Bolton? Gary Vogt, Menifee, Calif.
The 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-20-year-argument-between-joe-biden-and-elizabeth-warren-over-bankruptcy-explained/ar-AAAYaN8Matthew Yglesias
5/6/19
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first Democratic 2020 hopeful to take a direct swing at former Vice President Joe Biden since he got into the race, accusing him of being “on the side of the credit companies” in a fight that launched her political career a decade ago.
Warren’s quarrel with Biden isn’t personal. It’s about a 2005 bankruptcy bill he supported as a senator. Warren opposed the bill so vehemently that its passage inspired her transition from a Harvard bankruptcy law professor, who studied middle-class economics, to a senator and now a presidential hopeful.
“I got in that fight because [families] just didn’t have anyone and Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said after an April rally in Iowa. “It’s all a matter of public record.”
Russian Efforts to Exploit Racial Divisions in 2016 Found Firm Ground in U.S., Report Says
Source: MSN News
Russian Efforts to Exploit Racial Divisions in 2016 Found Firm Ground in U.S., Report Says
Mihir Zaveri and Jacey Fortin
5/6/19
Russian disinformation operations to exploit racial tensions during the 2016 presidential election in the United States found firm ground in a country where legislators have long sought to suppress the black vote, according to a report released Monday.
The report, “State of Black America,” was released by the National Urban League, a civil rights organization based in New York. It underlined the Russian interference in particular. The report, “State of Black America,” was released by the National Urban League, a civil rights organization based in New York. It underlined the Russian interference in particular but said that black voting rights were under attack from a wide range of actors, including domestic politicians.
In about two dozen states, voting restrictions have gotten worse since 2010 because of changes including new voter identification laws and decisions to limit locations where voters can cast ballots, the report said.
More at link
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russian-efforts-to-exploit-racial-divisions-in-2016-found-firm-ground-in-us-report-says/ar-AAAYF02
Buffett speaks on trade with China and economy
Buffett speaking on 5/4/19 at shareholder meeting.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-buffett-cnbc-idUSKCN1SC100
MAY 6, 2019
Warren Buffett says U.S.-China trade war would be 'bad for the whole world'
Jonathan Stempel, Jennifer Ablan
Buffett spoke after U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he will raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25 percent from 10 percent beginning on Friday
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Trump also said he would soon slap a 25-percent tariff on $325 billion of Chinese goods that have not been taxed.
Major stock markets fell worldwide on Monday in response to the tweet, which preceded scheduled trade talks this week, and was a “rational” response, Buffett said on CNBC television.
Buffett’s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc owns or invests in many companies that do business in China, including Apple Inc, in which it has a more than $50 billion stake, and Chinese electric car maker BYD Co.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/warren-buffett-rejects-socialism-calling-capitalism-a-miracle-for-us.html
Warren Buffett rejects socialism, calling capitalism ‘absolutely a miracle’ for the United States
PUBLISHED 27 MIN AGO
Matthew J. Belvedere
@MATT_BELVEDERE
Warren Buffett on Monday rejected the type of socialist ideas gaining favor on the far-left of the Democratic Party — delivering a full-throated endorsement of free market capitalism.
“If you look at what was here in 1776 and you look at what’s here now, this country has done an incredible job in terms of the deployment of resources and human ingenuity,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick, in an interview from Omaha, Nebraska — where Berkshire Hathaway held its annual shareholders meeting this weekend. “The idea of people unleashing their potential ... it’s absolutely a miracle.
Does that mean that every decision should be made by open market determinants? No, there’s need for regulation,” said Buffett, who supported Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. “Human ingenuity is incredible, and you want something that maximizes its use; and then curbs, on a few of the ideas that some of those people may have to sort of have it for all themselves.”
Sitting next to Buffett, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates told CNBC Monday, “Some people think when you defend capitalism you’re defending the tax rates.” He said that is not the case. Gates and Buffett for years have called for higher taxes on wealthy individuals, like themselves, to fund social safety nets and pay down the country’s debt. They have also maintained the rich are being undertaxed compared to working American
Biden Thinks Trump Is the Problem, Not All Republicans. Other Democrats Disagree.
Bolded text is the GOP 2020 Presidential Election argument. Our candidate needs an alternative message that stands up, tall and proud with a Democratic vision for moving forward. imo
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-thinks-trump-is-the-problem-not-all-republicans-other-democrats-disagree/ar-AAATspR
The New York Times
Biden Thinks Trump Is the Problem, Not All Republicans. Other Democrats Disagree.
Shane Goldmacher 5/4/19
Early polls show why Mr. Biden would want to elide any disagreements. Only 23 percent of Democrats said he had the “best policy ideas” in a recent poll by Quinnipiac University. But 56 percent of Democrats said he had the best chance of defeating Mr. Trump.
Some Democrats say the idea of trying to predict electability and casting Mr. Trump as an “aberration” was tried by Mrs. Clinton in 2016 — and it failed.
“I feel like the party went through this and the 2016 election showed that Trumpism isn’t just Donald Trump — it’s the entire Republican Congress, too,” said Rebecca Katz, a progressive Democratic strategist unaligned in the 2020 contest. “Until there is someone in the Republican Party who can stand up to Trump, then none of them are better than Trump.”
Republicans aligned with Mr. Trump say that, whatever the president’s failings, he has overseen a growing economy, the appointment of a vast array of conservative judges and a huge tax cut. They note that they offer dissent when they disagree with his policies; Mr. Trump recently suffered setbacks on his desired nominations to the Federal Reserve, for example, because of Republican opposition.
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